ND in the News: August 2023
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The New York Times
An Architect Who Forges Ahead in Her Own Lane
August 31, 2023
The University of Notre Dame is known for producing top-notch classically trained young architects, and every year the principals of architecture firms that work in traditional styles make pilgrimages to a spring career fair at the Indiana school to vie for the new talent.
The Washington Post
University of Notre Dame president: In Nicaragua, Catholicism is being extinguished
August 31, 2023
By Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Ortega’s attempt to extinguish Catholicism in Nicaragua merits world condemnation on a much larger, and louder, scale. As the president of a Catholic university, I am especially eager to rally university leaders in opposition to this persecution. But leaders from all walks of life should be condemning Ortega in the harshest terms.
Forbes
Why Freedom Of Expression And Academic Freedom Are So Important
August 31, 2023
College Presidents for Civil Preparedness and those presidents who support The Campus Call hail from 15 different colleges and universities. These institutions are highly diverse, including small liberal arts colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Ivy League institutions, large public flagship universities, and faith-based institutions. More specifically, they include: Benedict College, Claremont McKenna College, Cornell University, DePaul University, Duke University, James Madison University, Rollins College, Rutgers University, University of Notre Dame, University of Richmond, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
The Tablet
Fourteen States, Others Back N.Y. Pro-Life Sidewalk Minister’s Court Case
August 30, 2023
In friend-of-the court briefs filed in support of Vitagliano, legal experts including Richard Garnett, a Notre Dame professor of law and director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State and Society, stressed the widespread disagreement on the Hill decision.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
Axios
China-Africa party ties create Beijing-centric world, new book says
August 29, 2023
In "China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" (Columbia University Press), former U.S. ambassador to several African countries David Shinn and University of Notre Dame political scientist Joshua Eisenman detail Beijing's economic, military, diplomatic, political and ideological outreach to African nations.
ND Experts
Keough School of Global Affairs
The Hill
Opinion | Solving homelessness requires more evidence and less politics
August 29, 2023
Bill Evans is the University of Notre Dame Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics and co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). David Phillips is a research professor of economics at LEO. Jim Sullivan is a professor of economics and LEO co-founder.
ND Experts
Economics
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Economics; Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO)
Background Briefing with Ian Masters | Radio & Podcast
The Emerging Digital Military Industrial Complex as Silicon Valley Meets the Pentagon
Audio
August 28, 2023
Then we look further into the Digital Military Industrial Complex as Silicon Valley meets the Pentagon and Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen make billions out of new tech startups with contracts to manufacture and deploy thousands of robotic weapons operating on AI. Joining us is Eugene Gholz, a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Political Science
Associated Press
What’s in a name? Notre Dame and its fans painting Dublin green ahead of season opener against Navy
August 25, 2023
The Fighting Irish are in Dublin and headlining a college football game against longtime rival Navy.
C-SPAN
Derek Muller on the Supreme Court Decision in Moore v. Harper
August 25, 2023
University of Notre Dame law professor Derek Muller talked about the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper, which found the Constitution does not allow a state to regulate federal elections, rejecting a broad interpretation of the so-called “independent state legislature” theory.
ND Experts
Law School
NBC News
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do, study finds
August 25, 2023
Graham Peaslee, who studies PFAS at the University of Notre Dame and was not involved in the new research, said it's possible manufacturers aren't testing for the chemicals in their own products.
ND Experts
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Independent
‘I was so proud,’ says first Irish man to be the Notre Dame leprechaun mascot
August 24, 2023
The first Irish man to serve as the leprechaun mascot for the Notre Dame American football team has said it was a chance to be “part of something larger than himself."